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Halt and Catch Fire         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Halt and catch fire; Halt and Catch Fire (disambiguation)
<humour, processor> (HCF) Any of several undocumented and semi-mythical machine instructions with destructive side-effects, supposedly included for test purposes on several well-known architectures going as far back as the IBM 360. The Motorola 6800 microprocessor was the first for which an HCF opcode became widely known. This instruction caused the processor to toggle a subset of the bus lines as rapidly as it could; in some configurations this could actually cause lines to burn up. [Confirm?] (1995-12-14)
Halt and Catch Fire (computing)         
SEVERAL COMPUTER MACHINE CODE INSTRUCTIONS THAT CAUSE A COMPUTER'S CPU TO HALT
Halt and Catch Fire (HCF); Stop and Catch Fire; Halt and catch fire (computing); HCF (computing); Drop dead (computing); Drop Dead (computing)
In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction that causes the computer's central processing unit (CPU) to cease meaningful operation, typically requiring a restart of the computer. It originally referred to a fictitious instruction in IBM System/360 computers (introduced in 1964), making a joke about its numerous non-obvious instruction mnemonics.
List of Halt and Catch Fire episodes         
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Halt and Catch Fire episodes; Giant (Halt and Catch Fire); So It Goes (Halt and Catch Fire)
Halt and Catch Fire is an American period drama television series created by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers, that aired on AMC from June 1, 2014, to October 14, 2017.

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